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An erect much-branched shrub, with leaves and branchlets 
coated with persistent white tomentum. Leaves crowded, espe- 
cially on the barren branches, spreading or deflexed, 3 in. long, 
broad ovate, cordate-amplexicaul, mucronate, matted with white 
stellate tomentum, especially on the under surface, rather bullate, 
the side veins not visible, and the midrib indistinct. Heads very 
numerous, arranged in a dense corymbose panicle 14-2 in. in diam. 
Involucre globose, Lin. long and broad, the bracts in several 
rows, oblong, obtuse, pale yellow and glabrous in the upper half. 
Flowers 30 or more in a head. Scales of the receptacle lanceo- 
late, acute, 4 line long.—Central Madagascar, Baron 2069! 
Like the last, a near ally of H. Bojerianum, DC. 
HELICHRYSUM CRYPTOMERIOIDES, n. sp. 
Fruticosum, ramosissimum, ramulis erectis foliis adpressis occultis, 
folis crebris rigidis linearibus acuminatis junioribus villosis senioribus 
calvatis, capitulis solitariis multifloris terminalibus, involueri campanulati 
bracteis multiseriatis rigidis adpressis albis obtusis glabris, pappi setis 
albis caducis. 
A very much-branched erect shrub, the branchlets with their 
adpressed rigid dark-green linear crowded leaves much resembling 
those of Cryptomeria japonica, closely leafy up to the very top. 
Young leaves densely clothed with loose white woolly hairs; old 
dark green and glabrous. Leaves 1-1 in. long, rigid, very acumi- 
nate, rounded on the back, channelled down the face, with only 
the midrib visible. Capitula solitary in the axils of the ultimate 
whorl of branchlets, almost hidden by the leaves. Involucre 
campanulate, 4 in. in diam.; bracts multiseriate, oblong, obtuse, 
2-4 in. long, pure white, scariose, glabrous, persistent. Achene 
minute. Pappus of pure white caducous bristles as long as the 
corolla.— Central Madagascar, Baron 2027! In habit and foliage, 
but not in the capitula and involucre, this resembles most Aphe- 
lexis selaginifolia and A. lycopodioides, DC. Prod. vi. 217. 
STENOCLINE FRUTICOSA, n. Sp. 
Fruticosa, erecta, ramulis hispidis, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis in- 
tegris subcoriaceis facie glabris dorso incanis, capitulis trifloris densissime 
glomerato-paniculatis, involucri cylindrici bracteis ferrugineis nitidis im- 
bricatis obtusis, pappi setis rubellis basi in annulum concretis. 
A much-branched erect shrub, with branchlets densely clothed 
with short brown bristly hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, crowded, 
oblong, subcoriaceous, obtuse, cuneate at the base, about an 
